Writing Analysis Strategy: Part III: Analysis of a Multigenre Piece
Read each piece of the project carefully and check all that apply. Write specific examples in the space below for each of the genres in the project.
Genre Magazine Cover Examples
What effective choices did the writer make regarding use
of information, appearance, and point of view?
1. The reader learns about the topic from the piece. yes

2. What visual techniques did the writer use to enhance
authenticity and mood?
Appearance
Font yes
Arrangement on page no
Graphics no
Other

3. What point of view did the writer select?
The subject’s yes

An inanimate object’s no

Other
Organization
How did the writer choose to organize the piece to
accomplish the purpose?
1. Organizational pattern
Chronological yes

Order of importance yes

Categorical yes

Inverted pyramid no

Problem solution no

Spatial yes

Other

Organizational, order of importance, categorical (because its an interview)
©2006 by Melinda Putz from A Teacher’s Guide to the Multigenre Research Project. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.